Chapter 12
Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
1Yahweh said to Abram, “Go from your land, from your kin, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.
2I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3I will bless those who bless you, and the one who treats you lightly I will curse. In you all the clans of the earth will be blessed.”
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The verb “will be blessed” can also be read “will bless themselves.” The passive is printed. The reflexive is the live alternative.
4Abram went as Yahweh had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
5Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the goods they had gathered, and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. They came to the land of Canaan.
6Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
7Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
8He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar there to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
9Abram traveled on, going toward the Negev.
10There was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to stay there, because the famine was heavy in the land.
11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “Look, I know that you are a woman beautiful to look at.
12When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,’ and they will kill me and let you live.
13Please say you are my sister, so that it will go well for me because of you, and I will stay alive on your account.”
14When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
16He treated Abram well because of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
17Yahweh struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
18Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she is your wife?
19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go.”
20Pharaoh gave men orders about him, and they sent him off, him and his wife and all that he had.